Griego. Weve just learned bart is one of the agents getting federal financial help. President trump tweeted hours ago saying im proud to announce the San Francisco bay area will receive over 700 million in federal funds to support continued operations and support workers at sfo and for transit on muni and bart. This money will aid in economic recovery. And just this morning bay area transit officials announced a start date for the long awaited bart extension into Santa Clara County. We have the update. June 13, just 26 days from now. Wow, isnt this a great day. Its wonderful to be able to celebrate, isnt it . Every single taxpayer in Santa Clara County its because of you that i can stand here today and say were almost there. But this is what happens when we flip me on our head in Silicon Valley and make it we. Bart received 251 million of the federal money President Trump tweeted about to buy time and keep trains running through the end of the fiscal year on june 30 and into the summer. Every single day we have thousands of folks going to where they need to go to hold the bay area up. Next fiscal year will be difficult, but were like our transit partners, very, very, very adamant about moving through and being strong and getting people to where they need to go. Im at the live news desk. Were take a live look at the airport swzerland and additiona flights to japan are scheduled to return next month as a result of the pandemic. Sfo has had no flights to europe since april 1. All restrictions on entry remain in effect including federal requirement for people who have been in certain European Countries including american citizens to selfquarantine for 14 days once they reach their final destination. This just in, canada and the u. S. Have agreed to extend their agreement to keep the border closed to nonessential travel untill june 21st. Canadian Prime Minister juice tin trudeau said his government is planning stronger measures of more travelers. We need to make sure we have the to deal with any feral spreads and in covid19 19. It was set to expire on may 21st. Im an mack vic at the live news desk. Back to you. Taking you live outside now. The bay area seeing a mix of sun and clouds this afternoon as we look at San Francisco after a rainy morning for some spots. Meteorologist mary lee is tracking it all for us. Mary. Wet start to the day and some locations this morning and heading through the rest of our average catching a bit of sunshine re is lookat you can see some sun and some clouds out there. Our temperatures are starting to slowly warm up and were in the 60s for many locations at this hour. Show you hidef doppler thingsi the east near merced and modesto out there. Take you hourbyhour on future cant completely rule out an isolated spotty shower as we go through our day with that low pressure system slowly moving away from us and then as we look to tomorrow, High Pressure will be building in and that means sunnier, drier, warmer weather ahead. Check out daytime highs looking at mid 60s in San Francisco, 70 in san jose and concord and theres that extended forecast warming through the rest of the week. Back to you. Beginning today, Contracosta County relaxing restrictions allowing Retail Stores to offer curb side pickup. Stores will have to follow tight Safety Measures and cant display merchandise for sale outside the stores. Customers cannot go inside the store or enter indoor shopping malls and retailers must ensure they follow social distancing measures at the distance barriers and wait in line. Governor gavin newsom may allow hair solons to reopen in a matter of weeks and sporting event withs no crowds to start back up again in june. The number of patients with covid19 in bay area hospitals has dropped significantly. More than half since the peak over a month ago. According to state data reviewed by the chronical, the total hospitalizations across the nine bay area counties dipped to 230 on may 17th, a 51 decline since may 71 reported on april 7. Statewide weve seen hospitalizations go down 7. 5 in just the past two weeks and an 8. 7 decline in icu patients. Still, california is one of 21 states still seeing an increase in new positive cases. 49 of the 50 state haves now partially eased social distancing rules. A live look at the white house where President Trump Just Launched a new food program to help American Farmers and families. His team is fielding questions about Coronavirus Relief funding and as skyler henry reports, the president is revealing one way hes trying to protect himself. President trump announced the government will buy 3 billion of food to give to needy families and distribute 16 billion directly to farmers and ran issuers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Sign ups will begin on may 26 through your local Farm Service Agency office. You got to go sign up to pick it up to get the money. Well start issuing payments within one week of receiving your application. Congress authorized the money in march as part of a Coronavirus Relief package. Tuesday morning senators question treasury secretary about how the administration is distributing the money. Am i right that youre not requiring companies to use the money they borrow to keep their workers on the payroll . Mr. Senator, i am following what was the exact letter and spirit of the law that we negotiated with you and others on a bipartisan basis. President trump is expected on capital hill this afternoon republicans as they discuss whether future Coronavirus Relief packages are needed. Were going to look at the numbers and assess what we think is necessary and not necessary. Monday, the president also announced he is taking the drug hydroxychloroquine to help protect himself from the coronavirus. I was just waiting to see your eyes light up when i said this but, you know, when i announce this but ive taken it for about a week and a half now and im still here. The president said he consulted with his doctor after an aid tested positive covid19. I asked him what he thinks. He said, well, if youd like it. I said, yeah. The fda warned hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of hospital setting warning of serious heart problems. President trump has threatened to cut off all u. S. Funding to the World Health Organization for good after claiming the organization gave a failed response to covid19. The president s letter came after chinas president pledged to support an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus with a pledge of 2 billion in aid. Chinas Foreign Ministry calls President Trumps message an effort to shift the blame off of his own administration. The u. S. Health and Human Services secretary addressed the who during its assembly in geneva. There was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed. That failure cost s. Was ents a distraction from what the white house claims to be chinas failure to alert the world and said beijing should pay more. In our original series project home now, economist predict rent rate will drop in the bay area. Sounds like good news to the rent burden area and itll worsen the Housing Affordability crisis for years to come. According to zillow market rate apartment listings are up 10 in the bay area and nationwide down 1 . Zillow says its because the Health Crisis is making it more difficult for people in the bay to pay rent so many are just moving out. The Company Predicts this will cause rents to drop in the short term, which might sound good now but developers will pull back leaving us with the same housing shortage down the road. A real troublesome element is apartment buildings could be converted to other uses if the profitability of rent is challenged so much because the rent flow is gone. Uc Berkeley Center for housing and invasion found of the roughly 5. 9 million renters in california, 40 will struggle to pay because of impacts of covid19. 40 will use stimulus checks and unemploymente coronavirus is affecting your living situation, send your story to project home at cbs. Com and watch all of our original reporting on our website. Still ahead, making the skies safer for passengers, a behind the scenes look at what one Major Airline is doing to lower the risk of getting sick on a trip. Plus, one bay area tech company while others tell their employees to work from home for good. And kpix is working to bring you the positive stories dring this difficult time. Check them out at kpix. Com and check them out together and where you can connect with people looking to help and send your ideas as well to together cbs. Com. Were also streaming on cbsn bay area and find us on kpix. Com, the cbs news app this crisis has changed almost everything, rd to ach her saferesolve. Puogd weve flattened the curve we can protect the rd topeople we love,solve. Puogd and help californians get back on their feet. For our families and our communities, lets stay the course and stop the spread. The market its biggest jump in five s. Llalasslasd hundthe pandemic. The company specializes in helping people find work. Glass door laid off 300 people, 81 of them worked in merin. Square says its employees will now work from home permanently, even when offices begin to reopen. Delta airlines say more of the planes will be taking to the skies with fewer passengers d. Thairline says it will resume flying several major routes next month including some caribbean and transatlantic destinations. Delta will keep its planes at no more than 60 full through july. Americans say theyre unlikely to fly even after restrictions are lifted. This is according to a recent survey but airlines are working to lower the risk of people getting sick while traveling. Chris van clef got a rare behind the scenes look at what united is doing. Were on our way back to denver. The friendly skies that ofl standard preflight temperature check. Arriving at washington dallas fliers find a much emptier terminal, kiosk, and stepped up cleaning. Online outrage over this overcrowded slight alerting passengers if theyre on a flight with 70 or more of the seats sold. The vast majority are less than half full. Everyone has a different sense of what is considered uncomfortable. Were inventing a play book for cleaning and keeping things safe every day. Before boarding a team of cleaners go row by row wiping seats, tray tables, knobs, anything people might touch and the plane is disinfectedctroatn hospitals and sprays a mist that kills viruses and bacteria. By june, united plans to do the fogging on every flight on maintenance managing director said cabin air is refreshed during flights and run through a hospital grade hepa filter that strips out viruses. Linda and her family waiting to board a flight to chicago after her mother passed away. She admits to being a little nervous. If there was going to be too many people around not practicing the social distancing, not wearing masks, but i found that most are. Gone is boarding by group number. Now flights are boarding back to front as passengers get on, theyre handed sanitizing wipes. Cbs news, Reagan National airport, virginia. Now for the daily shoutouts to the class of 2020. Were recognizing bay area graduates of all ages. Cameron d. Branch graduating hes also exploring the military career option focusing on the medical field. And michael m. Win headed to Bentley University in massachusetts to major in finance or finance management. You can email your grad photos to 2020grads at cbs. Com or use the kpix on social media and use their name and something about them and no professional photos please. We love seeing all of those photos. We love seeing a little rain too. Yeah, its a little mixed out there. Yeah, we had rain and now yoe buildi tomrow a wag d e tes onthrough the week. A live look through the Treasure Island camera and mix of sun and clouds out there looking toward downtown San Francisco. The pollen count down fonot onl but tomorrow, thursday and friday. Now show you that storm system that is continuing to move out ovhere so we cant completely rule out an isolated shower but were seeing that sunshine out there and that ridge of High Pressure building in starting tomorrow that means drier, warmer weather ahead and also sunshine. As we go through our day, see a mix of sun and clouds and popup shower is a possibility as we go through our afternoon and then for tomorrow, we are looking at [ty of sunshine expected r morrle bit warmer and we waugthe week. Daytime highs, mid 60s in San Francisco, 70s in san jose and 70 in concord and 72 for fairfield. The extended forecast and what to expect with those temperatures warming up as we go through the next several days. Wednesday, thursday, and friday and the warmest days of the week coming our way saturday and for sunday and well continue to watch the temperatures climb on monday new at noon, more than a dozen bay area coming together today for the greater good. Pastors and parishioners gather at cupertinos shuttered mall to begin giving out 2 million surgical masks and volunteers placing stickers with Christian Messages with support on the boxes and personally delivering them. Theyre bound for nursing homes, homeless shelters, food banks and hospitals. Virtual and augmented reality are seeing a surge and even being used for ultrasounds. We spoke with Senior Reporter about a device from Butterfly Networks thats turning smart phones into ultrasound machines. Were expect ago 1 00 update from San Franciscos mayor on reopening efforts in the fight against the coronavirus. Well bring that to you live plus one states high flying stunt to get teslas attention and pitched to lower the automaker away from california. That story and more at 5 00 and remember, were streaming 24 7 on cbsn bay area. You dont want to forget that and that is going to do it for us here at kpix5, news at noon. The brooke [ sighs ] taylor, taylor, taylor. What a mistake, coming in here like that, laying into me. You thought day. Elevator incident was bad. [ sighs ] hmm. Yes, i am going to go through
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